[Not earlier than April 26, 1920]

## TELEGRAM TO OMSK SIBREVKOM ON THE RVS OF THE CAVALRY ARMY

Omsk
Sibrevkom

I am being asked to rescind the prohibition of the Tomsk Department of Tsentropechat from reprinting my speech on sole management. Investigate and telegraph back¹.

Lenin

## NOTES

¹ Sent in response to a telegram from Tomsk requesting that the prohibition of the Tomsk Department of Tsentropechat on reprinting V. I. Lenin's speech delivered on March 31, 1920 at the Ninth Congress of the RCP(b) on economic construction be rescinded by telegraph.

**Printed from a typescript text signed by V. I. Lenin**

¹ I. V. Kosior—a member of the Bolshevik Party since 1917. Following the October Socialist Revolution, he held leading military, Party, and Soviet positions; was chairman of Grozneft.

G. P. Pylaev—member of the Main Oil Committee and chairman of the Grozny Oil Committee; in May 1920, by decision of the Politburo, was appointed to work in the Political Department of the Cavalry Army.

² On April 26, I. V. Kosior telegraphed from Grozny to Rostov to I. T. Smilga (a copy to Moscow to V. I. Lenin) informing him that as chairman of Grozneft he had assumed work, reported that Pylaev had departed Grozny, and requested "confirmation of the execution of comrade Lenin's order" (these words in the telegram were underlined by Lenin).

Below the text of the telegram, Lenin wrote: "Is further confirmation necessary?"

Subsequently, Commander-in-Chief S. S. Kamenev wrote that Kosior, as a military man, requires confirmation of the order of the Council of Defense from his immediate superior—Smilga—but does not require confirmation from Lenin.

The telegram bears Lenin's notation: "To the archive."